There have been plenty of alien abductions since the 1960s, and there are two that everyone knows about. Discovery+ is going to look at those two cases and share with us the information we haven’t seen or heard before. Shock Docs: Alien Abduction includes interviews with abductees, along with recreations of the abduction and expert interviews.
The first case, which is the first known case, took place in 1961 to Betty and Barney Hill. They were driving home to New Hampshire from their honeymoon when they saw something odd in the sky. They tried to drive away from it, but it followed them on their route. Eventually, it caught up with them, and that is when the two of them lost a few hours of time, and couldn’t really remember what happened.
They told their story to a few family members, who told them to call the nearby air force about it. Back then, no one else had claimed they were abducted by aliens. So it was hard to get people to believe them. Plus, Henry was a civil rights leader and did not want to go public about what happened to him.
Betty spent the next few years of her life having horrible nightmares of that night. So in 1964, she went to a hypnotist who put her under. He recorded their session, and we get to hear what she told him from those tapes. Her husband also told his story to the hypnotist. You can hear in his voice how scared he was to relive that night, but he did.
To hear the encounter in their own words makes it more believable than reading or watching about it. It gets even more harrowing when you see her talk about it in her later years. We don’t see her husband talk about it because he passed away in 1969.
Then 14 years later, Travis Walton was abducted near his hometown of Snowflake, Arizona. He and his logging crew were driving home after a long day of work when they saw a light in the sky. Travis got out of the truck and looked up at the light. Then, all of a sudden, he disappeared.
His buddies drove back to town and told people what happened, and no one believed them. In fact, they thought they killed him, and they came up with this crazy story to hide their crime.
Over the next five days, his six co-workers were questioned over and over again. They even underwent a polygraph test, which they passed. Even more shocking to the investigators is that they all told the same story.
On the fifth day, Travis called his family and asked them to pick him up. When they got there, he was skinnier and dehydrated and had no recollection of the last five days. He thought that it was still the same night as his abduction.
His family tried to hide him in a hotel away from time to give him time to recover. However, they found out where he was hiding.
He started to tell people his story, some believed him and others didn’t. But he and his co-workers are still telling it like they told it almost 50 years ago. How do I know? Because he, several of them, and his then-girlfriend/now-wife were all interviewed for the documentary.
Travis even took the camera crew to the place where he was abducted. Therefore, we get to see his reaction when he returns to the place that changed his life forever.
I knew about both of their cases because I saw the movies (The UFO Incident and Fire in the Sky) based on their abductions. However, those movies were fiction, so I was intrigued to learn the real stories from them. Shock Docs: Alien Abduction did not disappoint.
Whether you believe in alien abductions or not, you will find these special episodes fascinating. Both the Hills and Walton were the first people to go public with their abductions and be accepted for it. We would not have those movies about it if it weren’t for them. So learn how it all started on Discovery+.
